Comb-cleaner



TIT.

NEE.

(No Model.)

E. R. PET 00MB GLEA Patented $ept. 30, 1890.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ELIHU R. PETTIT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMB-C LEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,238, dated September 30, 1890.

Application filed November 14:, 1889. Serial No. 330,260. (No model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIHU R. PETTIT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Comb-Cleaners, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to comb-cleaners and it consists of a yielding frame supporting wires or strips of suitable material to pass between the teeth of the comb for the purpose of cleansing it, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a comb-cleaner made of wire and embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of a piece of woven wire-cloth, showing the manner of forming .the cleaning-wires of my improvement therefrom. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of a section of the wire-cloth prepared for application to the frame of the cleaner. Fig. 5 represents a cleaner in which fiat strips of suitable material are employed instead of wires. Fig. 6 represents a detail perspective view of a stiffening-plate for the ends of the wire sections.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a yielding frame preferably constructed of wire, and having end pieces B bent into suitable form, as legs with side pieces or braces O therefor.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, a series of strands D, of wire, horse-hair, silk, or any other fibrous material, either single, twisted, or woven, or in any convenient form, are stretched across the frame from the top of one side piece B to the other. As a stiffening for ends or points of attachment of said strands D, a metal or analogous plate E may be employed, as fully shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 6, the same being secured to the top cross-bar. When wire is used for the strands D, woven wire-cloth-sections are formed in lengths, the ends thereof being woven in both directions, as at F, Fig. 3, and the strands D run from one woven end to the other. The lengths of cloth may be made as shown in said Fig. 3

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and at regular intervals to form a set ofv strands for each cleaner, thereby providing a convenient construction. The woven ends F are bent around plates E, as in the first instance, and the projecting ends of the said plate E turned against the ends of the wire frames B B to prevent the latter being displaced or detached.

As shown by Fig. 5, a series of pins G are fixed to the top portions of side pieces B of the frame, and a band H, of textile fabric such as fine-woven wire, tape, cloth, or other materialis interwound therearound, as

The strands or bands may be arranged diagonally or vertically.

The manner of attaching the ends of the strands or bands to the top portions of the side pieces 13 may be as preferred, and I do notlimit myself in this respect. The strands or hands enter between the teeth of the comb, and by moving the latter the dirt is readily removed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A comb-cleaner consisting of a yielding frame supporting a series of strands or bands of suitable material and a fastening device for the ends of said strands or bands, said 'parts being combined substantially as described.

2. A comb-cleaner having a yielding frame supporting a series of strands made from woven-wire fabric and removable fastening devices attached to the ends of said strands and adapted to be connected to the frame, substantially as described.

3. A comb-cleaner having a yielding frame supporting a series of strands provided with end-stiffening plates around which the strands are carried, substantially as described.

4. A comb-cleaner consisting of a yielding frame having woven wire-cloth attached thereto, said cloth being formed in lengths, having cross-wires at intervals to form a secure means of attachment, substantially as described.

ELIHU R. PETTIT.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, CHARLES S. HYER. 

